A Constructed Celebration

The U.S. finally caught up with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi yesterday, killing him with a laughably excessive amount of explosives (two 500 lb. bombs -- bear in mind that the targeted house was made out of shoddily arranged cinder blocks). I don't know how much a 500 pound bomb costs, but I'm guessing that two of 'em plus $25 million in reward money to Zarqawi's snitch add up to quite the pretty penny. You have to ask -- was it worth it? Probably. Zarqawi was thought to be behind over 200 separate terrorist attacks that killed over 1900 people. However, the question that nobody was asking on today's news programs is a simple one. Is Zarqawi's death a victory, considering that this dude was a complete nobody living in Jordan at the time of the United States' invasion of Iraq? Lest we forget, Zarqawi became a prominent resistance figure only after the U.S. established itself as an occupational force in Iraq. To me, that sounds like two steps backward and only one step forward. No wonder the administration is not singing from the rooftops like they did after Saddam's capture...

I'm really looking forward to the Al Gore "climate change" movie, which opens here tomorrow. However, I'm going to refer to the topic by its original, more accurate name: GLOBAL WARMING. It's real, people. Houston was 95 today and temps will hit 96 tomorrow. Wake up and smell the sweat.

JLo: same as yesterday

Music of the Moment: "Don't Be Fooled" by The Unseen